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Lophophorata – lophophorates; phoronid, brachiopods and their fossil relatives

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After Moysiuk, Smith & Caron, 2017

<==o Lophophorata Hyman, 1959 ex Emig, 1977
   |--+--o †Eccentrotheca Landing, Nowlan & Fletcher, 1980
   |  |  `-- †E. helenia Skovsted, Brock, Topper, Paterson & Holmer, 2011
   |  `-- Phoronida Hatschek, 1888 (phoronids, horseshoe worms; tupsumadot)
   `--o “Pan-Brachiopoda”
      |== †Tommotiida Missarzhevsky, 1970 (tommotians) [paraphyletic stem-brachiopods]
      |--o †Tannuolina Fonin & Smirnova, 1967
      |  |-- †T. pavlovi
      |  `-- †T. zhangwentangi 
      `--+--o †Micrina Laurie, 1986
         |  |-- †M. etheridgei (Tate, 1892)
         |  |-- †M. pusilla
         |  |-- †M. ridicula
         |  `-- †M. xiaofanensis
         `--+--+-- †Lingulosacculus
            |  `-- †Hyolitha Marek, 1963 sensu Moysiuk, Smith & Caron, 2017 (hyoliths, hyoliitit)
            `--+-- †Yuganotheca
               `-- Brachiopoda Duméril, 1806 (brachiopods, lampshells; lonkerojalkaiset)

Reference(s):

• Moysiuk, J., Smith, M. R. & Caron, J.-B., 2017: Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates.
  –Nature: in press [doi: 10.1038/nature20804]

 

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